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2024-03-23 15:27:00
R.I.P. Maurizio Pollini (1942-2024)
(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)Maurizio Pollini was one of the guiding lights of my musical life: which is to say, he and his music-making were with me from the moment in my teens when I became seriously interested in music. More, composers and performers alike, are gone now than remain with us; I shall not tempt fate by naming those who are left. One of my very first cassette purchases – it may even have been the first – was his recording of Mozart’s Piano Concertos nos 19 and 23 with Karl Böhm and the Vienna Philharmonic. I love it more than I can say. Mozart’s music requires but one thing: perfection. Perfection it receives in what, I suspect, will always be one of my Desert Island Discs. In my first London concert, a Prom for which I took the bus up to London and back to Sheffield for a birthday treat […]
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2024-02-25 10:00:53
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Royal Ballet revisits the choreographer’s timeless rags-to-Riches work, putting assorted casts through its finely tuned emotional wringerIn 2011, at the age of 46, when she had barely danced a classical work for four years,
2024-01-21 15:43:00
From large-scale Liszt and Wagner to intimate Schumann and Schubert at Lucerne's Le Piano Symphonique
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 - Yoav Levanon, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra - Le Piano Symphonique, Lucerne (Photo: Philipp Schmidli)Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2, Wagner, arr. Michael Sanderling: Götterdämmerung Suite, Schumann: Symphonic Etudes, Op 13, Schubert: Allegro in A minor, D947; Yoav Levanon, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Sanderling, Elisabeth Leonskaja, David Fray; Le Piano Symphonique at KKL, LucerneReviewed 18 January 2024From Lisztian bombast to Wagnerian sorcery with the Lucerne orchestra in fine fettle, then the contrast of mesmerising solo Schumann from Elisabeth Leonskaja and ending with pure friendship as she and David Fray duettedThe history of Liszt's piano concertos is somewhat complex. He began sketching ideas for what would become his first piano concerto in 1830, but it did not come to completion until 1849. In the mean time, he began work on what would become his second piano concerto in 1839/40 but did not complete the final revisions […]
2024-01-21 14:35:00
Daphne, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 20 January 2024
Peneios – René PapeGaea – Anna KissjuditDaphne – Vera-Lotte BoeckerLeukippos – Johan KrogiusApollo – David Butt PhilipFour Shepherds – Arttu Kataja, Florian Hoffmann, Adam Kutuy, Friedrich HamelTwo Maids – Evelin Novak, Natalia SkryckaDirector, set design, costumes, lighting – Romeo Castellucci Revival director – José Dario Innella Choreography – Evelin Facchini Assistant director – Maxi Menja Lehmann Set design assistance – Lisa Behensky, Alessio Valmori Costume assistance – Clara Rosina Straßer, Theresa Wilson Lighting assistance – Marco GiustiStaatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Gerhard Polifka)Staatskapelle BerlinThomas Guggeis (conductor)Images: Monika RittershausDaphne (Vera-Lotte Boecker) Seen first last year, Romeo Castellucci’s production of Daphne receives its first revival. In one sense, it could hardly be more timely, snow falling outside in wintry landscapes across Berlin and beyond, as it does onstage. Yet that immediately presents a greater untimeliness to the mise-en-scène, for a modern snowscape seems perversely distant from the Thessalian pastoral of Joseph Gregor’s […]
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